¹Zvino negore rechina raJehoiakimu mwanakomana waJosiya, mambo waJudha, shoko iri rakasvika kuna Jeremiya richibva kuna Jehovha, richiti,

¹It happened in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

²Tora rugwaro rwakapetwa unyoremo mashoko ose andakakuudza pamusoro paIsiraeri, napamusoro paJudha, napamusoro pamarudzi ose, kubva pazuva randakataura newe, kubva pamazuva aJosiya kusvikira zuva ranhasi.

²Take a scroll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

³Zvimwe imba yaJudha vachanzwa zvakaipa zvose zvandinofunga kuvaitira, kuti vadzoke mumwe nomumwe panzira yake yakaipa, ndivakangamwire kuipa kwavo nezvivi zvavo.

³It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do to them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

⁴Ipapo Jeremiya wakadana Bharuki mwanakomana waNeria, Bharuki akanyora parugwaro rwakapetwa mashoko ose aJehovha akabva mumuromo waJeremiya, aakataura kwaari.

⁴Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Yahweh, which he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book.

⁵Jeremiya akaraira Bharuki, achiti, Ini ndakadziviswa, handigoni kupinda mumba maJehovha.

⁵Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I can’t go into the house of Yahweh:

⁶Naizvozvo chienda iwe, undorava murugwaro rwakapetwa, mawanyora zvakabva pamuromo wangu, mashoko aJehovha zvinzwikwe nenzeve dzavanhu mumba maJehovha pazuva rokutsanya; uye uaravewo anzwikwe nenzeve dzavaJudha vose vanobuda mumaguta avo.

⁶therefore you go, and read in the scroll, which you have written from my mouth, the words of Yahweh in the ears of the people in Yahweh’s house on the fast day; and also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.

⁷Zvimwe kunyengetera kwavo kuchasvika pamberi paJehovha, vakadzoka mumwe nomumwe panzira yake yakaipa; nekuti kutsamwa nehasha zvakarehwa naJehovha pamusoro pavanhu ava zvakakura kwazvo.

⁷It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh, and will return everyone from his evil way; for great is the anger and the wrath that Yahweh has pronounced against this people.

⁸Bharuki mwanakomana waNeria akaita zvose sezvaakarairwa nomuporofita Jeremiya akarava mubhuku mashoko aJehovha mumba maJehovha.

⁸Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of Yahweh in Yahweh’s house.

⁹Zvino negore rechishanu raJehoiakimu mwanakomana waJosiya, mambo waJudha, nomwedzi wepfumbamwe, vanhu vose veJerusaremu, navanhu vose vakanga vabva kumaguta aJudha vachiuya Jerusaremu, vakatara zuva rokutsanya pamberi paJehovha.

⁹Now it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh.

¹⁰Ipapo Bharuki akarava mubhuku mashoko aJeremiya mumba maJehovha, mukamuri yaGemaria mwanakomana womunyori Shafani, muruvazhe rwokumusoro, pavaipinda pasuwo idzva reimba yaJehovha, vanhu vose vachizvinzwa nenzeve dzavo.

¹⁰Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh, in the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of Yahweh’s house, in the ears of all the people.

¹¹Zvino Mikaia mwanakomana waGemaria, mwanakomana waShafani, wakati anzwa mashoko ose aJehovha mubhuku,

¹¹When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of Yahweh,

¹²akaburukira kumba kwamambo, mukamuri yomunyori, wanei, machinda ose agerepo, vaiti, Erishama munyori, naDheraia mwanakomana waShemaia, naErinatani mwanakomana waAkibhori, naGemaria mwanakomana waShafani, naZedhekiya mwanakomana waHanania, namachinda ose.

¹²he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s room: and behold, all the princes were sitting there, Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.

¹³Ipapo Mikaia akavaparidzira mashoko ose aakanzwa, Bharuki achirava mubhuku vanhu vachizvinzwa nenzeve dzavo.

¹³Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.

¹⁴Naizvozvo machinda ose akatuma Jehudhi mwanakomana waNetania, mwanakomana waSheremiya, mwanakomana waKushi, kuna Bharuki, achiti, Bata muruoko rwako rugwaro rwakapetwa mawakarava zvichanzwika nenzeve dzavanhu, uuye. Ipapo Bharuki mwanakomana waNeria wakabata rugwaro rwakapetwa muruoko rwake, akaenda kwavari.

¹⁴Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand, and came to them.

¹⁵Vakati kwaari, Zvino chigara pasi, uirave tinzwe nenzeve dzedu. Ipapo Bharuki wakavaravira vakanzwa nenzeve dzavo.

¹⁵They said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.

¹⁶Zvino vakati vanzwa mashoko ose, vakatarirana vachitya, vakati kuna Bharuki, Zvirokwazvo tichaudza mambo mashoko awa ose.

¹⁶Now it happened, when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said to Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.

¹⁷Vakabvunza Bharuki, vachiti, Zvino chitiudza kuti wakanyora mashoko awa ose sei, achibva mumuromo make.

¹⁷They asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write all these words at his mouth?

¹⁸Ipapo Bharuki akavapindura, akati, Wakandiparidzira mashoko awa ose nomuromo wake, ndikaanyora neingi mubhuku.

¹⁸Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

¹⁹Ipapo machinda akati kuna Bharuki, Endai mundovanda, iwe naJeremiya, kurege kuva nomunhu unoziva kwamuri.

¹⁹Then the princes said to Baruch, Go, hide, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where you are.

²⁰Ivo ndokupinda kuna mambo muruvazhe, asi vakanga vaviga rugwaro rwakapetwa mukamuri yomunyori Erishama; vakaudza mambo mashoko ose achizvinzwa nenzeve dzake.

²⁰They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king.

²¹Ipapo mambo akatuma Jehudhi kundotora rugwaro rwakapetwa, iye akandorutora mukamuri yomunyori Erishama. Jehudhi akaravira mambo achizvinzwa nenzeve dzake, namachinda ose akanga amire namambo ivo vachinzwa nenzeve dzavo.

²¹So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes who stood beside the king.

²²Zvino mambo wakange agere muimba yakavakirwa nguva yechando nomwedzi wepfumbamwe, moto uchipfuta pamberi pake pachaenga.

²²Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month: and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him.

²³Zvino Jehudhi wakati apedza kurava zvikamu zvitatu kana zvina, mambo ndokuzvicheka nebanga ndokuzvikandira mumoto wakange uri muchaenga, kusvikira rugwaro rwakapetwa rwose rwapedzwa nomoto wakange uri muchaenga.

²³It happened, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, that the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

²⁴Asi havana kutya, kana kubvarura nguvo dzavo, kunyange mambo kunyange nomumwe wavaranda vake vakanzwa mashoko awa ose.

²⁴They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words.

²⁵Erinatani naDheraia naGemaria vakanga vanyengetera havo mambo kuti arege kupisa rugwaro rwakapetwa, asi haana kuvateerera.

²⁵Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not hear them.

²⁶Mambo akaraira Jerameeri mwanakomana waAzirieri, naSheremiya mwanakomana waAbhidheeri, kuti vabate munyori Bharuki nomuporofita Jeremiya; asi Jehovha wakavavanza.

²⁶The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.

²⁷Zvino shoko raJehovha rakasvika kuna Jeremiya, mambo apisa rugwaro rwakapetwa, namashoko akanga anyorwa naBharuki achibva mumuromo waJeremiya, richiti,

²⁷Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,

²⁸Chitorazve rumwe rugwaro rwakapetwa unyoremozve mashoko ose okutanga, akanga ari murugwaro rwakapetwa rwokutanga, rwakapiswa naJehoiakimu mambo waJudha.

²⁸Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.

²⁹Uye pamusoro paJehoiakimu mambo wavaJudha, uti, Zvanzi naJehovha, wapisa rugwaro urwu rwakapetwa, uchiti, Wanyorereimo uchiti, Zvirokwazvo mambo weBhabhironi uchauya kuparadza nyika ino, nokubvisapo vanhu nezvipfuwo?

²⁹Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and animal?

³⁰Naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha pamusoro paJehoiakimu mambo waJudha, Haangavi nomumwe uchagara pachigaro choushe chaDhavhidhi; chitunha chake chichakandirwa kunze masikati kana kuchipisa, novusiku kana kune chando.

³⁰Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit on the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

³¹Ndichamurova iye navana vake navaranda vake nokuda kwezvakaipa zvavo; ndichauyisa pamusoro pavo, napamusoro pavagere Jerusaremu, napamusoro pavarume vaJudha, zvakaipa zvose zvandakareva pamusoro pavo, asi havana kuteerera.

³¹I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they didn’t listen.

³²Ipapo Jeremiya wakatora rumwe rugwaro rwakapetwa, akarupa munyori Bharuki, mwanakomana waNeria, iye akanyoramo mashoko ose akabva mumuromo waJeremiya, aiva mubhuku yakapiswa nomoto naJehoiakimu mambo waJudha, mamwe mashoko mazhinji akafanana nawo akawedzerwawo.

³²Then took Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides to them many like words.